AMD's Radeon RX 480 graphics card is its first to use the Polaris 10 GPU, built on 14-nm FinFET process technology. We dive in with our advanced frame-time benchmarking methods to see what this card's performance means for the $200 price point.

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Today AMD is introducing their new 14 nanometer Polaris architecture. The first card we are reviewing is the Radeon RX 480, a highly affordable 8 GB card that's set out to shatter current price/performance. In terms of performance you can expect speeds between GTX 980 and GTX 970.

Nvidia fans have had their fun with their recently introduced cards but in the middle of all of that, we have also been hearing more and more about Polaris, AMDs latest GPU architecture. Most of it was rumors, but at the beginning of this month AMD did host a Webcast at Computex and finally gave us some more information about it. The big news was that the new RX 480 was coming on June 29th, it will have impressively smooth VR, and its price would be $199. Well, I’ve had the RX 480 in the office for the last few days and today's the day that we can finally sit down and talk about how it performs. At its price point, we know that AMD isn’t looking to shake up the top of the charts, but it's clear they want to bring good performance to the mainstream gaming market. The high-end cards might be exciting, but this is the price range people are buying the most, I’m excited to find out if the RX 480 is worth all of the hype.

2016 has been a slow year for graphics cards and while Nvidia launched their high end GTX1070 and GTX1080 solutions – they are strictly for the gaming audience with deeper pockets. AMD have approached their first 2016 GPU launch differently, opting to release their RX 480 – a mid range card priced at $199.99 firmly targeting the mass enthusiast gaming audience.

To serve those markets, AMD has unveiled three new products – the AMD Radeon RX 480, RX 470 and RX 460. AMD is expected to be releasing the Radeon RX 480 now while the others are set to release at a later date. Very little is known about the Radeon RX 470 and the Radeon RX 460 at this point, but it shouldn’t be too long now...

In their marketing leading up to the Polaris launch today, AMD showed two Radeon RX 480 cards running in CrossFire, beating NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1080 - at a much lower price point. We have a review of two of these cards running 16 games at 4 resolutions in CrossFire.

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For those out of the loop, the RX 480 Polaris is AMD's first FinFET 14nm GPU and part of their fourth generation GCN architecture. The Radeon RX 480 boasts 36 compute units, 2304 stream processors, a 1120MHz base clock speed with 1266Mhz boost clock speed, up to 5.8 TFLOPS of compute power, 256-bit GDDR5 video memory, and has a 150 Watt TDP. With a 150 Watt TDP, just a single 6-pin PCI-E power connector is required. The $199 card ships with 4GB of video memory where as for $239+ is 8GB of the GDDR5 video memory.In the reviewer material AMD sent over to us in advance, they claim that the Radeon RX 480 delivers 14% greater performance per compute unit over the Radeon R9 290. They also claim the Radeon RX 480 has 1.9x the performance-per-Watt of a Radeon R9 290.

Known as Polaris while it was approaching launch, the latest AMD products based on this GPU will be called Radeon RX 460, RX 470 and RX 480. Manufactured using the latest FinFET 14 process these new products benefit from that architectures lower power requirement which in turn means lower temperatures and reduced fan speed/noise. The new RX series is very much about gaming with performance enhancements across the architecture and we’ll look at the framerates later in this article, but AMD is looking to offer more than just that.

Those who like to view the latest high-def content on Netflix and Amazon can do so over HDMI 2.0b and DisplayPort 1.4 and the RX series supports HDR both in gaming and video playback. Streamers will look to use the built in GPU compute functionality which works with leading capture software such as OBS, minimising CPU use and maximising performance. Then, as far as VR goes, Polaris is fully compatible with Oculus Rift and HTC Vive and through features such as native support for asynchronous compute should offer optimal performance.

Touted as the perfect VR solution for the masses, AMD is hoping to claw back a bit of market share with the new Radeon RX 480 which is aimed at the mainstream $200-250 segment, with other affordable Polaris GPUs expected to follow.

AMD has been disseminating information about its Polaris architecture and the Radeon RX 480 for months now. If you’re a regular reader of HotHardware, you should already know that Polaris is AMD’s next-gen GPU architecture, designed for FinFET transistor technology. Polaris also ushers in the 4th generation of AMD’s GCN (Graphics Core Next) architecture. Some of the Radeon RX 480’s specifications were also revealed, along with the expected price point, and a number of the RX 480’s new features and capabilities, including support for the latest DisplayPort and HDMI standards. It seems AMD and its Radeon Technologies Group have been more vocal about this architecture and GPU prior to its launch than any other in recent memory.

The only pieces to the Polaris and Radeon RX 480 puzzle that have remained under wraps have been actual performance and power characteristics, but we are here reveal those to you today...

The Radeon RX 480 is finally here and after weeks of leaks we can finally show you our performance numbers and tell you what we know about the card. As you likely already know the AMD Radeon RX 480 features the Polaris 10 GPU built on the 14nm FinFET process by Samsung and Global Foundaries. The AMD Radeon RX 480 has 5.8 TFLOPS of compute performance thanks to having with 36 Compute Units containing 2,304 stream processors based on the latest GCN 4.0 technology. Read on to see how the card performs in 7 games and two synthetic benchmarks at 1080P, 1440P and 4K display resolutions. We also overclock it to the max!

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It's been a long time coming for AMD, much like team green they had to wait for a smaller fabrication process to become viable and ready at outputting proper yields on the new FinFET based 14nm wafers. The wait is over though and, as such, today we review the new Radeon RX 480, we test the model fitted with 8GB. It's a graphics card series that will allow you to play your games in both the Full HD 1080P range as well as gaming in WQHD (2560x1440) range. And all that at a very reasonable price as well. See, the 4 GB variant will start selling at $199 / 220 EURO whereas the price will be $239 / 260 EURO for today's tested 8 GB model. Honestly, 4GB we feel is plenty as standard for the aforementioned resolutions. Does that mean that AMD is back with a very good price versus performance product series? Follow us into this review where we'll look at temperatures, noise, performance and go with the latest game titles on the globe. It's been a somewhat wild ride for the past few months, AMD created a couple of viral moments on the web and announced stuff prior to the actual release. Hey, who can blame them. Today is all about Polaris 10, a codename indicative of the mainstream to high-end products (but not enthusiast). Polaris 11 will see the light of day as well in the entry-level range. Though today's release is about the Radeon RX 480, there will be two more products added to the product stack soon as well.

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Back in December of last year, AMD’s Radeon Technologies Group began slowly trickling out the plans for what would be their first GPU architecture built for the now-modern FinFET processes: Polaris. As part of a broader change in how GPU architectures have been handled – more information is now released ahead of launch – AMD laid out what they wanted to do with Polaris. Aim for the mainstream, radically improve power efficiency, lay the groundwork for HDR displays, and, of course, improve performance.

Now six months later we are seeing AMD’s plans come to fruition, as the Polaris GPUs are in full production, and the first retail products are launching today. Kicking off the Polaris generation in the desktop market will be AMD’s Radeon RX 480, which is aiming for the mainstream market. We’ve already seen the card, the price, and AMD’s marketing spiel back at Computex 2016, so now it’s time to take a look at the final, retail hardware.

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